To  fni-ther  provide  fur  the  public  defence. 

In  view  of  the  exigencies  of  the  country,  and  the  absolute  necessity 
of  keepincr  in  the  service  our  gallant  army,  and  of  placing  in  the  field 
a  large  additional  force  to  meet  the  advancing  columns  of  tlie  enemy 
now  invading  our  soil :  Therefore 

■  The.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  and  place  in 
the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  three  years,  unless 
the  war  shall  have  been  sooner  ended,  all  white  men  who  are  residents 
of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  thirty- 
five  years  at  the  time  tlie  call  or  calls  may  be  made,  who  are  not  legal- 
ly exempted  fr(nn  military  service.  All  of  the  ])ersons  aforesaid  who 
arc  now  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederacy,  and  whose  term  of  service 
will  expire  before  the  end  of  the  war,  shall  be  continued  in  the  service 
for  three  years  from  the  date  of  their  original  enlistment,  unless  the 
war  shall  have  been  sooner  ended;  Provided,  however.  That  all  such 
companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  and  regiments,  whose  term  of  origi- 
nal enlistment  was  for  twelve  months,  shall  have  the  right,  within 
forty  days,  on  a  day  to  be  fixed  by  the  Commander  of  the  Brigade,  to 
re-organize  said  companies,  battalions,  and  regiments,  by  electing  all 
their  officers,  which  they  had  a  right  heretofore  to  elect,  who  shall  be 
commissioned  by  the  President :  Provided.,  further.  That  furloughs 
not  exceeding  sixty  days,  with  transportation  home  and  back,  shall  be 
granted  to  all  those  retained  in  the  service  by  the  provisions  of  this 
Act  beyond  the  period  of  their  original  enlistment,  and  who  have  not 
heretofore  received  furloughs  under  the  pi'ovisipns  of  an  Act  entitled' 
"  An  Act  providing  for  the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  pri- 
vates and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  ArmY."ap. 
proved  eleventh  December,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  said  fur- 
loughs to  be  granted  at  such  times  and  in  such  numbers  as  the  Secre- 
tary of  War  may  deem  most  compatible  with  the  public  interest :  and 
Provided  further ,  That  in  lieu  of  a  furlough  the  commutation  value  in 
money  of  the  transportation  herein  above  granted,  shall  be  paid  to 
each  private,  musigian,  or  non-commissioned  officer  wlio  may  elect  to 
receive  it,  at  such  time  as  the  furlough  would  otherwise  be  granted: 
Prox^ided.  further.  That  all  persons  under  the  age  of  eighteen  years 
or  over  the  age  of  thirty-five  years,  who  arc  now  enrolled  in  the  mili- 
tary service  of  the  Confederate  States,  in  the  regiments,  squadrons, 
battalions,  arid  companies  herenfter  to  be  re-organized,  shall  be  requiri 


ed  to  remain  in  their  respective  companies,  squadrons,  lattalioni?  and 
regiments  for  ninety  days,  unless  their  phices  can  be  sooner  supplied 
by  other  recruits  not  now  in  the  service,  who  are  between  the  ages  of 
eighteen  and  thirty-five  years ;  and  all  laws  and  parts  of  laws  provid- 
ing for  the  re-enlistment  of  volunteers  and  the  organization  thereof 
into  companies,  squadrons,  battalions,  or  regiments,  shall  be  and  the 
same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Skc.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  such  companies,  squadrons,  bat- 
talions, or  regiments  organized,  or  in  process  of  organization  by  au- 
thority from  the  Secretary  of  War,  as  may  be  within  thirty  days  from 
the  passage  of  this  Act,  so  far  completed  as  to  have  the  whole  number 
of  men  requisite  for  organization  actually  enrolled,  not  embracing  in 
said  organizations  any  persons  now  in  service,  shall  be  mustered  into 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  as  part  of  the  land  forces  of  the 
same,  to  be  received  in  that  arm  of  the  service  in  which  they  are  au- 
thorized to  organize,  and  shall  elect  their  company,  battalion,  and 
regimental  officers. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  for  the  enrollment  of  all  persons 
comprehended  within  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  who  are  not  already 
in  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  it  shall  be  lawful 
for  the  President,  with  the  consent  of  the  Governors  of  the  respect- 
ive States,  to  employ  State  officers,  and  on  failure  to  obtain  such  con- 
sent, he  shall  employ  Confederate  officers,  charged  with  the  duty  of 
making  such  enrollment  in  accordance  with  rules  and  regulations  to 
be  prescribed  by  him. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  emcted.  That  persons  enrolled  under  the  pro- 
visions of  the  preceding  Section,  shall  be  assigned  by  the  Secretary  of 
War,  to  the  dilferent  companies  now  in  the  service,  until  each  compa- 
ny is  filled  to  its  maximum  number,  and  the  persons  so  enrolled  shall 
be  assigned  to  companies  from  the  States  from  which  they  respectively 
come. 

Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  Seamen  and  ordinary  Seamen 
in  the  land  forces  of  the  Confederate  States,  enrolled  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  Act,  may,  on  application  of  the  Secretary  of  the  ISavy, 
be  transferred  from  the  land  forces  to  the  Naval  service. 

Sec.  6.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  all  cases  where  a  State  may 
not  have  in  the  army  a  number  of  Regiments,  Battalions,  Squadrons 
or  Companies,  sufficient  to  absorb  the  number  of  persons  subject  to 
military  service  under  this  Act,  belonging  to  such  State,  then  the  resi- 
due or  excess  thereof,  shall  be  kept  as  a  reserve,  under  such  regula- 
tions as  may  be  established  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  that  at 
stated  periods  of  not  greater  than  three  months,  details  determined 
by  lot  shall  be  made  from  said  reserve,  so  that  each  company  shall,  as 
nearly  as'practicable,  be  kept  full :  Provided,  That  the  persons  held  in 
reserve  may  remain  at  home  until  called  into  servico  by  the  President : 
Provided,  also,  That  during  their  stay  at  home,  they  shall  not  receive 
pay:  Provided, further.  That  the  persons  comprehended  in  this  Act, 
shall  not  be  subject  to  the  Rules  and  Articles  of  War,  until  mustered 
into  the  actual  service  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  except  that  said  per- 
sons, when  enrolled  and  liable  to  duty,  if  they  shall  wilfully  refuse  to 


obey  said  call,  each  of  them  shall  be  held  to  be  a  desertei*,  and  punish- 
ed as  such,  under  said  Articles:  FrovicUd,  further.  That  whenever,  in 
the  opinion  of  the  President,  the  exigencies  of  the  public  service  may 
require  it,  he  shall  be  authorized  to  call  into  actual  service  the  entire 
reserve,  or  so  much  as  may  be  necessary,  not  previously  assigned  to 
different  companies  in  service  under  provision  of  section  four  of  this 
Act ;  said  reserve  shall  be  organized  under  such  rules  as  the  Secretary 
of  War  may  adopt :  Provided,  The  company'-,  battalion  and  regimental 
oflScers  shall  be  elected  by  the  troops  composing  the  same  :  Provided, 
The  troops  raised  in  any  one  State  shall  not  be  combined  in  regimen- 
tal, battalion,  squadron  or  company  organi?;ation  with  troops  raised  in 
any  other  States. 

Sec.  7.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  soldiers  now  serving  in  the 
army  or  mustered  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States, 
or  enrolled  in  said  service  under  the  authorizations  heretofore  issued 
by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  who  are  continued  in  the  service 
by  virtue  of  this  Act,  who  have  not  received  the  bounty  of  fifty 
dollars  allowed  by  existing  laws,  shall'  be  entitled  to  receive  said 
bounty. 

Sec.  8.  B''  it  further  enacted.  That  each  man  who  may  hereafter  be 
mustered  into  service,  and  who  shall  arm  himself  with  a  musket,  shot- 
gun, rifle  or  carbine,  accepted  as  an  efficient  weapon,  shall  be  paid  the 
value  thereof,  to  be  ascertained  by  the  mustering  officer  under  such 
regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  if  he  is 
willing  to  sell  the  same,  and  if  he  is  not,  then  he  shall  be  entitled  to 
receive  one  dollar  a  month  for  the  use  of  said  received  and  approved 
musket,  rifle,  shot-gun  or  carbine. 

Sec.  9.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  persons  not  liable  for  duty  may 
be  received  as  substitutes  for  those  who  are,  under  such  regulations  as 
may  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

Sec  H).  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by 
the  President  from  the  company,  battalion,  squadron  or  regiment  in 
which  such  vacancies  shall  eccur,  by  promotion  according  to  seniority, 
except  in  case  of  disability  or  other  incompetency:  Providid,  however. 
That  the  President  may,  when  in  his  opinion,  it  may  be  proper,  fill 
such  vacanc}'-  or  vacancies  by  the  promotion  of  an}'^  officer  or  officers, 
or  private  or  privates  from  such  company,  battalion, -squadron'or  regi- 
ment who  shall  have  been  distinguished  in  the  service  by  exhibition 
of  valor  and  skill ;  and  that  whenever  a  vacancy"  shall  occur  in  the 
lowest  grade  of  the  commissioned  officers  of  a  company,  said  vacancy 
ehall  be  filled  by  election  :  Provided,  That  all  appointments  made  by 
the  President  shall  be  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Senate, 

Sec.  U.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  provisions  of  the  first  sec- 
tion of  this  Act,  relating  to  the  election  of  officers,  shall  apply  to 
those  regimenta,  battalions,  and  squadrons  which  are  composed  of 
twelve  months  and  war  companies  combined  in  the  same  organization, 
without  regard  to  the  manner  in  which  the  officers  thereof  were  origi- 
nally appointed. 


Sec.  12'.  Be  it  farther  enacted.  That  each  company  of  iiifantry  shall 
consist  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  rank  and  file ;  each  company 
of  field  artillery  of  one  hundred  and  fifty,  rank  and  file ;  each  of 
cavalry,  of  eighty,  rank  and  file. 

Sec.  13.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  all  persons,  suhject  to  enroll- 
ment, -who  arc  not  now  in  the  service,  under  the  provisions  of  this 
Act,  shall  be  permitted,  previous  to  such  enrollment,  to  velunteer  in 
companies  now  in  the  service. 

Approved  April   16,  1862. 


AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  entitled  **  An  Act,  to  provide  further  for  the  public 
defence,"  approved  April  16,  1862. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 
the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  call  out  and  place  in 
the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  three  years,  unless 
the  war  should  have  been  sooner  ended,  all  Avhite  men  who  are  resi- 
dents of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of  thirty-five  and 
forty-five  years,  at  the  time  the  call  or  calls  may  be  made,  and  who 
are  not,  at  such  time  or  times,  legally  exempted  from  military  service, 
or  such  part  thereof  as,  in  his  judgment,  may  be  necessary  to  the  pub- 
lic defence,  such  call  or  calls  to  be  made  under  the  provisions  and  accord- 
ing to  the  terms  of  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  and  such 
authority  shall  exist  in  the  President,  during  the  present  war,  as  to 
all  persons  who  now  are  or  may  hereafter  become  eighteen  years  of 
age,  and  when  once  enrolled,  all  persons  between  the  ages  of  eighteen 
and  forty-five  shall  serve  their  full  time:  Piovided,  That  if  the 
President,  in  calling  out  troops  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
States  shall  first  call  for  only  a  part  of  the  persons  between  the  ages 
hereinbefore  stated,  he  shall  call  for  those  between  the  ages  of  thirty- 
five  and  any  other  age  less  than  forty-five :  Provided,  That  nothing 
herein  contained  shall  be  understood  as  repealing  or  modifying  any 
part  of  the  Act  to  which  this  is  amendatory,  except  as  herein  express- 
ly stated  :  And  provided  further.  That  those  called  out  under  this  Act, 
and  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  first  and  imme- 
diately ordered  to  fill  to  their  maximum  number  the  companies,  battal- 
ions, squadrons  and  regiments  from  the  respective  States  at  the  time 
the  Act  to  further  provide  for  the  public  defence,  approved  I6th  April, 
1862,  was  passed,  and  the  surplus,  if  any,  shall  be  assigned  to  organ- 
izations formed  from  each  State  since  the  passage  of  that  Act,  or 
placed  in  new  organizations  to  be  ofiicered  by  the  State  having  such 
residue,  according  to  the  laws  thereof,  or  disposed  of  as  now  provided 
by  law :  Provided,  That  the  President  is  authorized  to  suspend  the  ex- 
ecution of  this  Act,  or  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  in  any 


ocality  Avhere  he  may  find  it  impracticable  to  execute  the  same,  and 
that  m  such  locahty,  and  during  said  suspension,  the  President  is 
authorized  to  receive  troops  into  the  Confederate  service,  under  any 
of  the  Acts  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress  prior  to  the  passa4 
of  the  "  Act  to  provide  further  for  tlie  public  delence,"  approved  16th 
April,  1862.  ^ 

Approved  September  37, -1802. 


AN  ACT 

To  exemjtt  certain  persons  from  military  duty,  and  to  repeal  an 
act  entitled  "An  Act  to  exempt  certain  persons  from  enrolment 
for  service  m  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,"  approved  21st 
April,   1862. 

jy.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  all 
j)crsons  who  sliail  l)e  held  unfit  for  military  service   in  the   field    by 
reason    of  bodily    or  mental  incapacity   or  .imbecility,   under    rules 
to    be  prescribed   by.  the    Secretary  of  War,  the  Vice    Tresident  of 
the    Confederate   States,   the   officers,  judicial    and  executive,  of  the 
Confederate  and  State  Governments,  including  postmasters  appointed 
by  the  President   and   confirmed    by    the    Senate,  and  such  clerks  in 
their  offices  as  are  allowed  by  the  Postmaster  General,  and  now  era- 
ployed,  and   excluding   all    other   postmasters,    their   assistants   and 
clerks ;   and  except  such  State  officers  as  the  several  States  may  have 
declared,  or  may  hereafter  declare  by  law  to  be  liable   to  militia  duty, 
the  members  of  both  Houses  of  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States', 
and  of  the  Legislatures  of  the  several   States,   and  their  respective 
officers  ;  all  clerks  now  in  the   offices   of  the   Confederate  and  State 
Governments  authorized  by  law,  receiving  salaries  or  fees  ;   all  volun- 
teer  troops,   heretofore  raised  by  any  State  since  the  passage  of  the 
act  entitled   "  An   Act   further   to   provide  for    the   public  defence," 
approved   April    16th,    1862,  while  such  troops  shall  be  in  active  scr- 
vice  under  State  authority  :   Provided,     That  this  exemption  shall    not 
apply  to  any  person  who  was  liable  to  be  called  into  service  by  virtue 
of  said  act  of  April  16th,  1862:    all  pilots   and  persons  engaged  in 
the  merchant  marine  service  ;  the  president,  superintendents,  conduc- 
tors,   treasurer,    chief   clerk,    engineers,   managers,   station   agents, 
section  masters,  two  expert  track  hands  to  each  section  of  eight  miles' 
and  mechanics  in  the  active  service  and  employment  of  railroad  com- 
panies, not  to  embrace  laborers,  porters  and  messengers  ;    the  presi- 
dent, general  superintendent  and   operators  of  telegraph    companies, 
the    local   superintendent  and  operators  of  said    companies,  not   to 
exceed  four  in  number  at  any  locality,  but  that  at  the  scat  of  Gov- 
ernment of  the  Confederate  States ;  the  president,   superintendents 
captains,  engineers,  chief  clerk  and  machanics  in  the  active  service 
and  employment  of  all   companies  engaged  in    river  and  canal    nav- 
igation, and  all   captains  of  boats  anJ  engineers  therein   employed ; 


one  editor  of  eacli  newspaper  now  being  published,  and  such  employees 
as  the  editor  or  proprietor  may  certify,  on  oath,  to  be  indispensable 
for  conducting  the  publication  ;  the  public  printer,  and  those  employed 
to  perform  the  public  printing  for  the  Confederate  and  fetate  Govern- 
ments; every  minister  of  religion  authorized  to  preach  according  to 
the  rules  of  his  sect  and  in  the  regular  discharge  of  ministerial  duties  ; 
and  all  persons  who  have  been  and  now  are  members  of  the  society 
of  Friends  and  the  association  of  Dnnkards,  Nazarenes  and  >Mennon- 
ists,  in  regular  membership  in  their  respective  denominations :  Pro- 
vided, Members  of  the  society  of  Friends,  Nazarenes,  jMennonists  and 
Dunkards  shall  .furnish  substitutes,  or  pay 'a  tax  of  $51)0  each  into 
the  public  treasury  ;  all  physicians  who  now  are,  and  for  the  last  fivo 
years  have  been,  in  actual  practice  of  their  profession  ;  all  shoemakers, 
tanners,  blacksmiths,  wagon-makers,  millers  and  their  engineers, 
millwrights,  skilled  and  actually  employed  at  their  regular  vocation 
in  the  said  trades,  habitually  engaged  in  working  for  the  public,  and 
v.-hilst  so  actually  employed :  Provided,  Said  persons  shall  make  oath 
in  writing  that  they  are  so  skilled  and  actually  employed  at  the  time 
as  their  regular  vocation  in  one  of  the  above  trades,  which  affmavit 
shall  only  he  p7'imafacia  evidence  of  the  facts  therein  stated:  Provided 
further,  That  the  exemptions  herein  granted  to  persons  by  reason  of 
their  peculiar  mechanical  or  other  occupation  or  employment,  not  con- 
nected with  the  public  service,  shall  be  subject  to  the  condition  that  the 
products  of  the  labor  of  such  exempts,  or  of  the  companies  and  establish- 
ments with  which  they  are  connected,  shall  be  sold  and  disposed  of  by 
the  proprietors  at  prices  not  exceeding  seventy-five  per  centum  upon  the 
cost  of  production,  or  within  a  maximum  to  be  fixed  by  the  Secretary  of 
War,  under  such  regulations  as  he  may  prescribe :  And  it  is  further  pro- 
vided, That  if  the  proprietors  of  any  such  manufacturing  establishments 
shall  be  shoAvn,  upon  evidence,  to  be  submitted  to,  and  judged  of,  by  the 
Secrerary  of  War,  to  have  violated,  or  in  any  manner  evaded  the  true  in- 
tent and  spirit  of  the  foregoing  proviso,  the  exemptions  therein  granted 
shall  no  longer  be  extended  to  them,  their  superintendents  or  operatives 
in  said  establishments,  but  they  and  each  and  every  of  them  shall  be 
forthwith  enrolled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  ordered  into 
the  Confederate  army,  and  shall,  in  no  event,  be  again  exempted 
therefrom  by  reason  of  said  manufacturing  establishments  or  employ- 
ment therein  ;  all  superintendents  of  public  hospitals,  lunatic  asylums, 
and  the  regular  physicians,  nurses  and  attendants  therein,  and  the 
teachers  employed  in  the  institutions  for  the  deaf,  dumb  and  blind ; 
in  each  apothecary  store,  now  established  and  doing  business,  one 
apothecary  in  good  standing,  who  is  a  practical  apothecary ;  superin- 
tendents and  operators  in  wool  and  cotton  factories,  paper  mills,  and 
superintendents  and  managers  of  wool  carding  machines,  who  may  be 
exempted  by  the  Secretary  of  War :  Provided,  The  profits  of  such  es- 
tablishments shall  not  exceed  seventy-five  per  centum  upon  the  cost 
of  production^  to  be  determined  upon  oath  of  the  parties,  subject  to 
the  same  penalties  for  violation  of  the  provisions  herein  contained  as 
are  hereinbefore  provided  in  case  of  other  manufacturing  andmechan- 
cal  employments ;  all  presidents  and  teachers  of  colleges,  academies, 


schools*  and  theological  seminaries,  who  have  been  regulai-ly  engaged 
as  such  for  two  years  previous  to  the  passage  of  this  act;  all  artizans, 
mechanics  and  employees,  in  the  establishments  of  the  Government 
for  the  manufacture  of  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance  stores  and  other 
munitions  of  war,  saddles,  harness,  and  army  supplies,  who  may  be 
certified  by  the  officer  in  charge  thereof,  as  necessary  for  such  es- 
tablishments;  also,  all  artizans,  mechanics,  and  employees  in  the  es- 
tablishments of  such  persons  as  are  or  may  be  engaged  under  contracts 
with  the  Government  in  furnishing  arms,  ordnance,  ordnance  stores, 
and  other  munitions  of  war:  Provided,  That  the  chief  of  the  ordnance 
bureau,  or  some  ordnance  officer  authorized  by  him  for  the  purpose, 
shall  approve  of  the  number  of  the  operatives  required  in  such  es- 
tablishments;  all  persons  employed  in  the  manufacture  of  arms,  or 
ordnance  of  any  kind  by  the  several  States ;  or  by  contractors  to  fur- 
nish the  same  to  the  several  State  Governments,  whom  the  Governor 
or  Secretary  of  State  thereof  may  certify  to  be  necessary  to  the  same  ; 
all  persons  engaged  in  the  construction  of  ships,  gunboats,  engines, 
sails,  or  other  articles  to  the  public  defence,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  ;  all  superintendents,  managers,  mechanics, 
and  miners  employed  in  the  production  and  manufacture  of  salt  to  the 
extent  of  20  bushels  per  day,  and  of  lead  and  iron,  and  all  persons 
engaged  in  burning  coke,  smelting,  and  manutacture  of  iron,  reo-ular 
miners  in  coal  mines,  and  all  colliers,  engaged  in  making  charcoal,  for 
making,  pig  and  bar  iron,  not  to  embrace  laborers,  messengers,  wag- 
oners, and  servants,  uiiless  employed  at  works  conducted  under  the 
authority  and  by  the  officers  or  agents  of  a  State,  or  in  works  em- 
ployed in  the  production  of  iron  for  the  Confederate  States;  one  male 
citizen  for  every  500  head  of  cattle,  for  every  25()  head  of  horses  or 
mules,  and  one  shepherd  for  every  500  head  of  sheep,  of  such  persons 
as  are  engaged  exclusively  in  raising  stock:  Provided,  That  there  is 
no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  do  military  duty  engaged  with  such 
person  in  raising  stock ;  to  secure  the  proper  police  of  the  coun- 
try, one  person  either  as  agent,  owner,  or  overseer,  on  each  plan- 
tation on  which  one  white  person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws  or 
ordinances  of  any  State,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult 
not  liable  to  do  military  service,  and  in  States  having  no  such  law,  one 
person  as  agent,  owner,  or  overseer,  on  each  plantation  of  twenty 
negroes,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  mili- 
tary service  :  Aiid  furthermore.  For  additional  police  for  every  twenty 
negroes  on'  two  or  more  plantations,  within  five  miles  of  each  other, 
and  each  having  less  than  twenty  negroes,  on  which  there  is  no  white 
male  adult  not  liable  to  military  duty,  one  person  being,  the  oldest  of 
the  owners  or  overseers  on  such  plantations  ;  and  such  other  persons 
as  the  President  shall  be  satisfied,  on  account  of  justice,  equity, 
or  necessity,  ought  to  be  exempted,  are  hereby  exempted  from  mil- 
itary service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States;  also,  a  regiment 
raised  under,  and  by  authority  of  the  State  of  Texas  for  frontier  de- 
fence, now  in  the  service  of  said  State,  while  in  such  service  :  Provided, 
further.  That  the  exemptions  hereinabove  enumerated  and  granted, 
hereby,  shall  only  continue  whilst  the  persons  exempted  arc  actuaUy 
engaged  in  their  respective  pursuits  or  occupations, 


Sec  2  Be  it  further  cva  ted,  That  the  act  entitled  .*' An  Act  to 
exemp't  certain  persons  from  enrollment  for  f  ™e /^  the  armies  of 
the  Confederate  States,"  approved  the  2lBt  of  April,  1862,  is  hereby 
repealed. 

Approved  October  1 1,  1862. 


